ASP.NET MVC datetime culture issue when passing value back to controller

Question

How can i tell my controller/model what kind of culture it should expect for parsing a datetime?

I was using some of this post to implement jquery d

Answer 1

you can change the default model binder to use the user culture using IModelBinder

   public class DateTimeBinder : IModelBinder
   {
       public object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
       {
           var value = bindingContext.ValueProvider.GetValue(bindingContext.ModelName);
           var date = value.ConvertTo(typeof(DateTime), CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

           return date;    
       }
   }

And in the Global.Asax write:

ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(DateTime), new DateTimeBinder());
ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(DateTime?), new DateTimeBinder());

Read more at this excellent blog that describe why Mvc framework team implemented a default Culture to all users.